Eloquent Quotes

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

Government, Fire, Reason

Silence is more eloquent than words.
Thomas Carlyle

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Billy Graham

Through, Prayer, Hands

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley

Great, Truth, Silence

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle

Truth, Speak, Creation

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Truth, Fact

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot

Expression, Except, Compliment

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
William Jennings Bryan

Heart, Rather, Speech

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
Ovid

Matter, Easy, Anybody

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes

Nature, Men, Wise

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
Augustus Hare

Mind, Cannot, Wings

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.
Meg Ryan

Great, Speak, Often

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
George Henry Lewes

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.
Dave Pelzer

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
Eric Johnston

Good, Lesson, Dinosaur

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Fisher Ames

Become, Language, Bible

James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity.
Jon Landau

Life, Person, Thought

I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.
Tinie Tempah

Music, Yourself, Long

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
Gloria Naylor

Words, Song, Worth

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Emily Post

Thought, Worry, Ideal

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
Bill Bruford

Hands, Harmony, Hamilton

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
Johann Georg Hamann

Single, Word, Times

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
Walter Murch

Music, Age, Others

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